Sentences with phrase «on ice mass»

Not sure what this means, but if you are looking for data on ice mass then I know that there are gravity - based estimates of ice mass, which would automatically correct for cavities in the ice.

Nicolas Bergeot from the Royal Observatory of Belgium talks about the interesting research on ice mass balance and Earth's geomagnetic field he and his colleagues are carrying out...

Nicolas Bergeot from the Royal Observatory of Belgium talks about the interesting research on ice mass balance and Earth's geomagnetic field he and his colleagues are carrying out at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station.

Not exact matches

Add in the vinegar, then sprinkle on just enough ice water so that you can gather the dough into a cohesive mass.

Sprinkle on the ice water 1 tablespoon at a time so that you can gather the dough into a cohesive mass.

It begins with huge masses of ice floating in water on Mars.

For more than a decade these Earth - observing satellites have provided some of the first environmental measurements on a global scale, including large - scale changes in the mass of polar ice.

When it's cold enough to form ice shelves that extend over the Antarctic land mass and into the ocean, much of what drops to the seafloor is sand and gravel that the glacier has picked up on its slow march from the continent's ice cap.

As it melts, sea levels around it will fall, say Natalya Gomez and Jerry Mitrovica of Harvard University and colleagues: with the mass of ice shrinking, its gravitational pull on the seawater will be weaker.

The opposing effects of El Niño on ice shelves — adding mass from snowfall but taking it away through basal melt — were at first difficult to untangle from the satellite data.

This allowed them to calculate the redistribution of mass on Earth's surface due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and mountain glaciers, and model the shift in Earth's axis.

This new map allows scientists to determine the age of large swaths of the second largest mass of ice on Earth, an area containing enough water to raise ocean levels by about 20 feet.

The sun and moon tug on the planet, while the drift of continents, changes in ocean currents, and the rebounding of the crust since the retreat of ice age glaciers all shift mass around, altering Earth's moment of inertia and therefore its spin.

If the renewable energy target is cut, «it's the type of jolt to industry that basically would create such an upheaval that you would have a mass exodus», said Alex Hewitt, managing director of Bulgarian - Polish - U.S. - backed windfarm operator CWP Renewables, which has A$ 1.5 billion of projects on ice.

To better understand and anticipate changes in sea level rise, scientists have sought to quantify how much snow falls on the ice sheet in any given year, and where, since snow is the primary source of the ice sheet's mass.

That ice layer adds some mass to the basin, but it isn't thick enough on its own to make Sputnik Planum have positive mass, Johnson says.

The data allowed them to calculate the redistribution of mass on Earth's surface due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and mountain glaciers, and the resulting rise in sea level.

David Ullman, a postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State University and lead author on the study, said there are two mechanisms through which ice sheets diminish — dynamically, from the jettisoning of icebergs at the fringes, or by a negative «surface mass balance,» which compares the amount of snow accumulation relative to melting.

The results now published in Environmental Research Letters seem to contradict the data from a satellite mission based on other measuring methods, which indicates a slight increase in mass in the glacier ice for an almost identical period of time.

However, most of the Antarctic glaciers are on land, and rapidly adding new ice shelf material to the floating mass will increase sea level rise.

Like the inferred lakes on Europa, Vostok lies some two miles under a shell of surface ice and remains liquid due to the crushing pressure of that overlying mass.

Using an instrument called a mass spectrometer, scientists could peer at molecules of ice and learn the temperature on the day that the snow fell.

The East Antarctic ice sheet is the largest ice mass on Earth, roughly the size of Australia.

The movement of these large masses of ice also leaves distinct marks on the walls of valleys and in the form of deposits of glacial sediment.

«At the same time, the mass loss on the ice sheet is not very large compared to how much mass they store.»

Anyone who accepts that sunlight falling on ice free waters which has less reflectivity than sunlight falling on a large ice mass covering those waters and also accepts that this reduction in albedo has a positive feedback effect, leading to further warming, can't help but opt for A or B, it seems to me.

Last May I did a program on NASA's revelations that East Antarctica was also losing ice mass.

His comments are based on the paper «Limits in detecting acceleration of ice sheet mass loss due to climate variability», B. Wouters, J. L. Bamber, M. R. van den Broeke, J. T. M. Lenaerts and I. Sasgen, Nature Geoscience 6, 613 — 616 (2013) doi: 10.1038 / ngeo1874 Find the abstract and illustrations for that paper here.

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In this paper, we use the Spitzer c2d ice survey, complimented with data sets on ices in cloud cores and high - mass protostars, to determine standard ice abundances and to present a coherent picture of the evolution of ices during low - and high - mass star formation.

Detailed net mass balance of the ice plain on Ice Stream B, Antarctica: A GIS Approach, Journal of Glaciology, Vice plain on Ice Stream B, Antarctica: A GIS Approach, Journal of Glaciology, VIce Stream B, Antarctica: A GIS Approach, Journal of Glaciology, Vol.

The timing and severity of ice ages are determined by two major factors, namely the level of sunlight falling on northern land masses and the associated levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases.

They effectively remove mass from the ice sheet surface by sublimation and redistribute snow on a regional scale.

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This implies that large - scale observations — for example, of global mean sea - level change or of the change mass of the Antarctic ice sheet — will not on their own significantly narrow the range of late - century sea - level projections for decades to come.

This week, the institute announced that Greenland's ablation season, the period when its ice sheet loses more mass from melting along its edges than it does from snowfall in its interior, started on June 6.

The effects on ice sheets due to increasing temperature may accelerate, but as documented by the IPCC the effects are not easily projected accurately and in the case of the Antarctic, may trigger an accumulation of additional ice mass.

This spring, NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences are scheduled to launch the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow - On (GRACE - FO) mission, twin satellites that will continue the original GRACE mission's legacy of tracking fluctuations in Earth's gravity field in order to detect changes in mass, including the mass of ice sheets and aquifers.

Negative mass balances on tributary glaciers can lead to thinning of the glaciers and ice shelves.

The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest single mass of ice on Earth.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

Unlike the great ice sheet of Antarctica, the Greenland ice sheet is melting both on its surface and also at outlet glaciers that drain the ice sheet's mass through deep fjords, where these glaciers extend out into the ocean and often terminate in dynamic calving fronts, giving up gigaton - sized icebergs at times.

«I thought this idea of growing a massive star in a special configuration and forming a black hole with the right kind of masses was something we could approximate, but to see the black hole inducing star formation and driving the dynamics in ways that we've observed in nature was really icing on the cake.»

«We think we now have identified a new tool, and that's the polar motion data, to be able to put bounds on how large the natural variability may be in terms of ice mass....

and therefore to be able to make a stronger statement on how unique the current and apparently global warming related ice mass loss is» for Greenland, he says.

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An ice age is brought on by the effects of global warming and paleoclimatologist Jack Hall struggles through the masses fleeing south for warmer climate on his way north to reunite with his son.

Think The Purge meets The Ice Storm: a teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.

Serve small portions to children explaining that the blue is the icy center of a glacier (a mass of ice formed by compacted snow) and the white on top is snow with silt (fine bits of sand and clay) in it.